Court
Squash tennis is played in four different courts walls. The front wall (against which the ball is served) is (usually dressed in tin), a witness to a few meters below the ground, an online service more than 6 feet (1.8 m) of the land, and a copy of the valid range line to 16 feet (4.9 m) above the ground. The back line is 4.5 m (1.4 m) above the ground. There are two lines needed in the field: a service line of 10 feet (3.0 m) from the back wall and a central line of the field work, at least the wall in front of the line service. Unlike a squash racquet, there are boxes with non-service. There are four types of fields:
North American Squash Court
A squash court in North America is 18.5 by 32 feet (5.6 m to 9.8). Originally designed for the game of squash rackets connected, designed by early 1930, the National Squash Tennis Association (NSTA) approved play this type of court. The dimensions are quite similar to the tennis court, squash court officials. The only changes are needed, adding a line of the rear wall of 4.5 meters (1.4 m) (in line N. American squash the back wall is 6.5 m or 2.0 m soil) and the center line of the land to land. Temporary lines can easily be added with blue painters tape. The problem today is that the North American version of pumpkin less popular, new courts being built, and many of the former are converted to other purposes.
Tennis Squash
In 1910, the NSTA adopted a standard size of 17 dishes of 32.5 feet (5.2 m to 9.9). Even though many of them were built in the area of ??New York after the game on a squash court N. Allowed the Americans began to disappear. He did not make economic sense from a specialized court, where a versatile maintain acceptable.
International Squash
International squash 21 to 32 feet (6.4 m to 9.8) is. The additional lines should be added. The extra width of the court takes the different multi-walled shots more difficult, or impossible, as many experienced players prefer a No. U.S. court. However, a 21 foot (6.4 m), the Court has often the only generally available, especially outside North America.
Non-standard Plates
Originally the game was played on a shoe, then the courts for five years. Before 1911, there were no standards for the size of the court, and those who built specifically for tennis, squash varies from each other easily. They were built on private land and clubs. At least one of these fields survives today in playable condition. The court of Plum Orchard has been completely restored in 2008 and has worked with electric light boxes. It 'was George Lauder Carnegie "Plum Orchard" estate on Cumberland Island, Georgia, taken in winter 1903-1904 and is now owned by the National Park Service. An exhibition on the history of tennis, squash was recently installed in the villa, which is sometimes open for public tours.
Equipment
The equipment required is relatively simple and inexpensive: junior tennis racquets and standard lawn tennis ball. Changed in recent decades, tennis balls were made for the game. They had more pressure and were slightly smaller than tennis balls. The last ball has been specially made green, so it is easy to see against the white walls. Fields from the beginning had dark wood walls, so that the white tennis balls could be seen. Player is now dark with a pen, a yellow ball, or use colored balls (like the pink ball on a limited basis by Penn to raise money for breast cancer research sold). Blue painters tape can be used for additional lines on the floor and back wall to add squash.
How to Play
Squash tennis is played by two players. An illustrated guide to the rules of the game was published by NSTA in 1968 (see external links below).
Serve
At the beginning of the first game, a rotation of the blades is used to decide who has the first service. In the next part of your game is the player who won the previous game first.
The server is behind the service line on the floor or to the left or right of the midline. Throw the ball in the air, hits the bat before the ball touches the ground.
The service is good, if the ball:
• first hit the front wall above the service line and below the outside (it is forbidden to touch-lines)
• Without the wall, lands in front of the service line on the opposite side of the courtyard, to the left or right (depending on the server side).
This is the main difference between squash and tennis rackets squash. In this sport, the ball must pass through the service line to the ground in the box of the recipient. But it is similar to lawn tennis, the ball diagonally and lands offered in the online service. In squash racquet on the server side of the wall, instead of in the yard.
First, the server can decide which side he started on the left or right. A foul is allowed if the ball does not go outside (ie not to hit or go over the lines, striking the witness, or touches the ground before the front wall). If the server is the point, the next step to the other side of the courtyard (right or left) wins once more before serving, alternating each serve.
The standard used is a smooth ball hit just below the line of the front wall is available in a wide arc, then bounced in front of the service line to the ground and meets meets the side. The light is cut to pull the ball against the wall. A high bounce along the wall is more difficult to return. The recipient can not hit the ball before it bounces on the ground.
Rally
After a good service to the receiver hits the ball so that, directly or indirectly affects the front wall before hitting the ground a second time, or strikes outside the boundaries of the box. Players move the ball well, and we are not a reasonable return. The ball can be played on the back wall when the ball hit the wall first. A bullet can hit anywhere on the wall so it bounces on the ground with anything else that should be in the back wall to keep the line. Unintentional interference results in a "let" the point is played.
Evaluation
A game is played until one player reaches 15 points, unless the score reaches 13/13 or 14/14 first. If 13/13 is reached, the receiver decides if the current game points 15, 16 or 18. When it reaches 14/14 (without 13/13) receiver decides whether 15 or 17 we do not need to win by two points. Originally, only the server of a client if he lost the rally, he would lose the right to serve. Legislation in force at the point and serve to the winner of a rally.
The game is the best three of five games.
History
Squash Racket sports games and its parent company, club, develops America in 1880, built by the nation's first court in St. Paul's School in Concord, New Hampshire. Adequate because of a delay in equipment delivery stick "to use the balls and bats for the boys the game of lawn tennis, which arrived too recently introduced in the country. Even with the right equipment, some of the tennis courts invoked the two types of plates are used.
In 1890, squash and tennis rackets squash and adults had spread to Boston, and the game starts, the more formalized. In 1898, after the construction of a court of the Tuxedo Club, Tuxedo Park, New York, the squash court was among the members of society in New York favorite. Courts were private property of the built heritage as a millionaire William C. Whitney, JP Morgan and George Lauder Carnegie. In 1905, the Racquet and Tennis Club, Harvard, Princeton, Columbia courts and clubs of Manhattan, as well as in Brooklyn Heights, CA Crescent and the Casino.
In 1911, the National Squash Tennis Association was founded and the banker, John W. Organized Prentiss, Harvard Club of New York. Rules, equipment and dimensions of the game were formalized.
Short film has won the most popular sport, and some are limited in other cities such as Detroit, Buffalo, Chicago, Boston, Philadelphia, but the racket Tennis Squash Squash soon obscured. But in New York City, the game will receive a large following over the years 1920 and 1930. The decision to introduce a high-pressure balloon hastened the end of the sport. A fastball was preferred by professional players, but discourages newcomers. In an attempt to make the game more accessible to a tournament was allowed to squash rackets. But for many years the sport has attracted some new players. During the Second World War, the ball was no longer special in production, so that experienced players began to lose interest.
Two exceptional teacher of the fifty states Robert Reeve and Trudy Porter. League games and tournaments sat down with the energy provided by Norman F. Torrance in 1950. The sixties saw a revival, as a young player has the game and Jim Prigoff national champion and president of tennis and squash became C. Richard "Dick" Squires is active when a special ball was again available for players. Prigoff dominated the Nationals in 1960, two squires and Bacallao until he retired in 1969 from the game. But the competition for the new game of racquetball prevented these later efforts to make progress with the public. The annual national tournament was the only official, but has become a virtual private properties of the two men, Pedro A. Bacallao (1969-1980, 1986) and Gary Squires (1982-1983, 1985, 1987-2000), son of Dick Squires.
Today Squash Courts
In 2005, the game is practically extinct. There are no tournaments. The game takes place on a regular basis by only about a dozen players at the Harvard Club in New York, though for a long time lover of Bill Rubin stated that there was a bit 'too young, very talented young players. The NSTA is not a meeting in a few years, however.
The basic equipment is inexpensive, however, and for those who may have access to a squash court, will easily be enjoyed for its entertainment value and for the year must. Dick Squires a guide to the sport in 1968. The booklet is not copyrighted and is available online at Project Gutenberg. The guide contains tips on how to play the game, history, rules and a list of all the national champions.
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